Change / Swap SharePoint Root Site

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In this video I demonstrate how to change / swap the root SharePoint site in an Office 365 SharePoint environment.

This process essentially swaps the root site with another site that you specify.

This is a nice process to use because you can create your new root site, then swap it with your current root site when you deem the time is right.

The original root site is archived, so you do not lose any data.

Here are a few reasons why you might want to do this:

1. Your root site is currently a Classic site (Team Site, Publishing Site, etc.) and you want to swap it with a Modern site (Hub Site, Communications Site).

2. Your root site is currently a Modern site and you want to swap it with a classic site.

3. You want to use this operation as a deployment mechanism as part of your ALM where you swap a 'production' site with a 'development site'.

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This is great, been looking forward to this one!

DavesTechTips
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Worked great, thank you for the video overview.

alexmartin
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Nice summary thanks Todd.

HOWEVER: I haven't seen anyone discuss how swapping site URLs will affect the original term store. I have heard that it won't but I'm waiting to hear back from Microsoft on that. I don't trust 'fun' things like this any longer from MS. Ive been burned too many times by 'gotchas'.

Cheers

carlw
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Would custom SPFX webparts also translate well with this? We have a tenant site to move to the root, it has a custom header extension and a couple webparts.

warrenp
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Hi Todd... I am still confused when you replied to the one post that "Microsoft needs turn on the ability for you to swap the root site in your tenant" can you elaborate on this please?

MattNorce
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hi todd, thank you for your video. one question - what was the problem that the PowerShell command did work twice? Thank you very much for your answer. Best regards, roberto

robertobirrer
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Hi Todd, Is it possible to change the name of the root domain in the sharepoint URL ?

sushantpoudel
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I can't see those links at all. I'm trying to make this work but...

icedalpha